The Meeting, a 2012 Nigerian romantic comedy drama produced by Rita Dominic and Mildred Okwo, won the People’s Choice Award (PCA) at the Nollywood Film Festival in Paris, France.
Starring Femi Jacobs, Rita Dominic, Linda Ejiofor, Kehinde Bankole, Jide Kosoko, Nse Ikpe Etim, Kate Henshaw and Chinedu Ikedieze, among others, the film was voted the best by festival goers.
Rita, who shone like a million stars at the festival, thanked “everyone who voted for us.”
To emerge best film, The Meeting, directed by Mildred Okwo, had to edge out Biyi Bandele’s Half of A Yellow Sun, Michelle Dede’s Flower Girl, Tope Oshin-Ogun’s Journey To Self, Daniel Emeke Oriahi’s Misfit and Kenneth Gyang’s Confusion Na Wa.
Producers of the winning film get to use a high tech optical lens for free in their next film project as well as screening at the one-day African Culture Festival scheduled for 2015.
On the Nollywood delegation to the festival were Mahmood Ali Balogun, OC Ukeje, Omoni Oboli, Chika Chukwu, Ashionye Raccah, Mildred Okwo, Tope Oshin-Ogun and Rita Dominic.
